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Pable,<br>
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Thanks for responding.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/05/2018 05:46 AM, Pablo Sebastián
Greco wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="-1"><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Robert,
cubieboard5 (AKA Cubietruck Plus) has an A83T SoC, which
only got multicore for kernel 4.18 (still not relased).<br>
I made a 4.17 version with smp support backported and you
can find it here
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/community-kernel-latest/kernel/4.17.6-200.el7/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/community-kernel-latest/kernel/4.17.6-200.el7/</a>).<br>
Also cubietruck plus may not have HDMI support yet (I got a
patch from another user in #centos-arm and seems to be
working).<br>
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Using it as a server on if I need a local connection I use the
serial console via a TTL/USB converter. Of course I would have to
get the pin-out for this board. <br>
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Finally, the main thing about that board (about that SoC
actually), is that SATA is not native, it is an integrated
SATA-USB, so performance may be an issue.<br>
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Ouch. this is for a mail server that has extensive disk I/O. So
forget this board.<br>
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Personally I love the BananaPi M2Ultra, 2G RAM, 4 Cores and
native SATA. The only problem is that SATA support is not
integrated yet in any kernel, so it needs external patches.<br>
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Any timing on delivering the support mainline?<br>
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Pablo.<br>
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P.S: this is a blog post I made a few months ago <a
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href="https://blog.centos.org/2018/05/testing-armhfp-devices/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://blog.centos.org/2018/05/testing-armhfp-devices/</a>
, BananaPi M3 is practically the same as Cubieboard5.<br>
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I will look at it.<br>
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P.S 2: wrt any device with AllWinner SoC, you can check <a
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href="https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort</a>
to know what to expect.</font></font><br>
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I use to follow it closely and did some testing for Hans when he was
running the Allwinner development. I should go back and check in,
so to speak.<br>
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Of course if there is a quad core 64-bit ARM with sata under $100
that runs at 5V; that would do nicely!<br>
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Bob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 5/8/18 a las 01:09, Robert
Moskowitz escribió:<br>
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anyone here tried out the octa-core Cubieboard5? <br>
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Does Centos work with all those cores for better multitasking
than the duo-core A20 boards? <br>
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One of my Cubieboard2 is dying and I CAN replace it with one of
my test boards. But my mail server does struggle with only 2
cores for all the virus scanning. If I had more cores, I could
lift the attachment limit, perhaps. <br>
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I just saw a deal on the Cubieboard5, cheaper than the
Cubietruck. <br>
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Or info on any other quad board. <br>
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thanks <br>
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